The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has adopted the National Quality Forum’s (NQF) list of hospital mistakes that cause the deaths of 200,000 people per year and catastrophic injury to 600,000. Therefore, the fact that no one has...

Talk about reinventing the wheel! The new health care reform legislation in Congress is supposed to establish some sort of bureaucracy that will attend to improve the quality of health care in America. I feel like I’m going insane because this...

In the midst of all of the commotion concerning health care reform, most of the focus is on coverage; who gets what from whom. There is little more than some vague lip service regarding quality and no standards for patient safety. Thus, notwithstanding...

The latest email circulating from the White House contains a link to twenty videos that people submitted for an advertising campaign. They said that those were the 20 best videos selected from hundreds of entries and that we should vote for the one...

When the push for health care reform first began in January of this year, President Barack Obama presented in his eight point plan a paragraph about improving patient safety and quality of care: “Improve Patient Safety and Quality Care. The plan...